Archive | July, 2008

Dancing On The Pedals

The move from pro ballromm dancer to Grand Tour stage winner is pretty improbable but, that is exactly what Mark Canendish has done.  Maybe my own dreams of going from cube farm jockey to F1 driver/ninja are not as crazy as my finace tells me. The Scalpel got some new fat skins today for Downieville [...]

Whoa, Didn’t See That Coming!

You know as much as I want to hate A Tour and write it off the racing is just too damn good. If you had asked yesterday who would win the TT today I would have said Cancellara without even blinking. Schumacher? Damn, would not have guessed that in a million years. Also looks like [...]

Bike Racin’ and Such

This past weekend here in the 801 we had our Mountainbike State Championships of The World. Yeah, I got worked. Still though, it is the first time my slack ass has raced in the dirt this year. So even as I was getting beaten down faster than the US dollar I was pretty happy about [...]

It is About The Bike, Stupid

Just when I thought the Segway was the pinnacle of the type of extremes fat, lazy Americans would go to to avoid any sort of exercise along comes the Uno. Hey Mr. Engineer type. Did you know there is already a non polluting vehicle with style and it was invented in the 1800′s. It is [...]